Web Application Development Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Load testing
Oct 21st
There are different kinds of testing any application must have passed before releasing it to the public. We’ve already taken a look at Unit testing and GUI Testing. But another important kind of test you should test your application against is Load testing. Having undertaken and passed these three different kinds of testing will ensure you’ll have a rock-solid application that will meet the highest quality criteria.
Load tests are designed to check how fast a system can perform its tasks under certain work conditions. They also verify some other attributes, like scalability, reliability and an efficient use of resources. These tests can find which parts of the system make the whole application perform worse than expected. If all components of the system are independently monitored (database, web server, etc…), finding the bottleneck of the system won’t be difficult. And just by tuning this part of the application, you’ll make your whole system faster. Doesn’t this sound beautiful?
GUI Testing
Oct 4th
A very important thing you must do before releasing your web application into the wild is some sort of Graphical User Interface Testing. This kind of testing ensures that the interfaces between the client and servers execute in tandem. It is an important factor that these connections or interfaces work seamlessly without any failure or degradation in performance of speed and accuracy. The testing should also check for appropriate error messages. So, you must design these tests not only to check whether your application works as expected, but also to ensure that the performance is good enough.
My name is Oliver Mezquita Prieto, and I'm a Software Engineer focused on web application development, both serverside and clientside, using ASP.NET technology.
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